The data collected from the satellite will improve weather forecasting, such as predicting a hurricane’s track, and will help agencies involved with post-storm recovery by visualizing storm damage and the geographic extent of power outages.

The JPSS program is a partnership between National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA through which they will oversee the development, launch, testing and operation all the satellites in the series.

NOAA funds and manages the program, operations and data products.

NASA develops and builds the instruments, spacecraft and ground system and launches the satellites for NOAA.

JPSS-1 launch management was provided by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.